Nikhyl Singhal: prediction

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…Just to make sure we understand, when you say judgment, what should people be thinking of when you talk about judgment? I think that it's evaluating whether the thing that we're changing is a good or bad thing. I think that it's also evaluating whether we should change the product in one way versus another. You can't build a hundred custom versions of the same product. It affects your brand, it affects the maintainability, et cetera. When customers are asking for things, when you're trying to think through how do you build something that's sustainable, differentiated, that's judgment. Evaluating whether it's successfully met that criteria and whether it's worth building and worth releasing, it's almost like the system skill that's existed from the beginning of the internet. It's, "Hey, it's not about the feature, it's around the system that we're putting together, the platform, if you will, that's enabling capability." That's the judgment of, boy, there's all these changes coming in. They're going to happen more frequently. As an aside, because of all these changes, I think that in two years, I think there won't be any more bad software. This is maybe more of a wish and a dream than a prediction, but I think that if you count in the week, in your given week, how much bad software you come back with. I have a house and it has 15 different apps that run to control everything from the shades, to the air conditioner, to the garage door. Almost every one of those apps are afforded. They don't work particularly well. They never get monitored. Things break, no one ever checks it. All that stuff's going to get fixed because someone's going to basically sit down and tell Claude to fix it, and it's just going to fix it. It's going to fix it. It's going to be more secure, et cetera. I think that that's changing, and so people will have a lot less tolerance for bad software. Along those lines, just real quick at a quick aside to your side, the prompt I constantly find myself using with Codex and Claude is just how can we make the product experience better? How can we make this better? You just ask that and it's like, "Here's 10 ways we can make it better." It's like, "Wow, these are really good ideas." Then cool, do the first seven.…

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